Yeah the decision was spontaneous. We decided to make it happen.
Road trip to Hyderabad.
Hyderabad:
Population: 64 lacs. India’s 6th largest metropolitan city also referred as the IT hub of india along with Bangalore and Pune.
Area: 567 Sq. Km
Famous for: Ranked 19th out of 41 world’s best cities to travel in 2011.
4th best city to live in India.
>>Ramoji film city is the largest film city in Asia and the second largest in the world.
>>The headquarter of Microsoft India and Google India is located in Hyderabad.
We managed four bikes and two of them were without Registration Certificate (RC). And three riders without any driving license. Two of the bikes were like they were never taken for servicing for over a year. We actually paid for that. Their tyre punctured. It would have been more pleasure had the highway passed through the hills.
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| NH-7 |
We started our journey at 8 in the morning. In Maharashtra, this year’s Mansoon has broken last 40 years rainfall record and its still on its way to break another century record. We travelled using NH-7, which has four beautiful, well maintained one way lanes. National highway is funded by the central government. So, the highway was in very good condition. The design speed of that highway must be 100 kmph. Hyderabad was 485 km from Zero mile in Nagpur. Taking average speed of our motorbike as 60 kmph, we assumed that we would reach Hyderabad in maximum 10 hours. The rain had to disturb us. We took a night rest at Armoor, a small town and travelled remaining 184 Km in 3 hours the next morning.
It was still 24 km left to reach the centre of the city. But the city had already started to show its traffic and unmanaged urbanization. We met our friend’s friends there and further proceeded towards the city. The city was normal Indian city with more beggars, traffic police and more flyovers. The city’s traffic was a mess like in Kathmandu. Telegu was used almost everywhere and Telegu actor, Mukesh Babu had replaced Sharukh Khan and Salman Khan in hoarding boards.
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| Golconda Fort |
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| Salar Jung Museum |
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| Airport Road |
The people were nice and friendly. Unlike in north India, people were calm and didn’t behave rudely.
Everything was cheap as compared to Nagpur. A movie ticket in PVR costs Rs. 100. Normal meal costs Rs. 50. Metro Buses were available to every parts of the city. We visited places like , Charminar, Golconda fort, Husain Sagar lake, Nehru Zoological park, Osmania Sagar lake, Salar Jung museum and also ate Hyderabad’s Special Chicken Biryani at the Hotel Paradise.
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